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Henry George Jr. (November 3, 1862 – November 14, 1916) was an American newspaperman who served two terms as a
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from
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from 1911 to 1915. He was the son of the American political economist
Henry George Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist, Social philosophy, social philosopher and journalist. His writing was immensely popular in 19th-century America and sparked several reform movements of ...
(1839–1897).


Biography

George was born in
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, California, and attended the schools there. At the age of sixteen, he started working for a printing office, where he was employed for one year. He moved with his parents to
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in 1880 and worked as a reporter for the ''
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'' in 1881. In 1884, he accompanied his father as his secretary on a lecture tour of Great Britain, at the close of which he joined the staff of the ''London Truth''. He then returned to the United States and joined the staff of the ''
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''. He was then managing editor of the ''Standard'' from 1887 to 1891, a correspondent in Washington, D.C. for a syndicate of western papers in 1891 and a correspondent in England for the same syndicate in 1892. In 1893, George became the managing editor of the ''Florida Citizen'' at
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. He returned to New York City in 1895. Upon the death of his father on October 29, 1897, he was nominated to succeed his father as the candidate of the Jefferson Democracy Party for
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, but he was unsuccessful. He married Marie Morelle Hitch (born January 22, 1879. She is
Caroline Takamine Beach Caroline Fields Hitch Takamine Beach (August 5, 1866 – November 25, 1954) was an American socialite and philanthropist. She married Japanese chemist Takamine Jōkichi in 1887, and in 1935 donated a shrine in Arizona to the Roman Catholic Dioc ...
's younger sister.) from Orleans Parish, Louisiana on December 2, 1897 and was a special correspondent in Japan in 1906.


Congress

George was elected as a
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to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1911 – March 4, 1915). However, he was not a candidate for reelection in 1914.


Later career and death

He engaged in literary pursuits until his death in Washington, D.C. and was interred in
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in Brooklyn.


Works

* ''The Life of Henry George'' (1904) *
The Menace of Privilege
' (1905)


References


External links

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